Washington Monument lighting through the years

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

A decorative snowflake accentuates fireworks that reach up Baltimore's Washington Monument , which is surrounded by lights that glow to celebrate the holiday season, in a view north of Franklin Ave. on Charles Street.

A decorative snowflake accentuates fireworks that reach up Baltimore's Washington Monument , which is surrounded by lights that glow to celebrate the holiday season, in a view north of Franklin Ave. on Charles Street.

See photos from the annual lighting of Baltimore's Washington Monument in Mount Vernon. At the 2014 lighting, protesters held a peaceful but loud demonstration, prompted by two separate grand jury decisions in which white police officers were not indicted in the deaths of unarmed black men.